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One of the largest independent ski manufacturers worldwide, with shops and distributors in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Line Skis: alpine skis: United States: 1995: Introduced a radical-sidecut mini-ski in 1995, and then developed this basic idea into one of the first twin-tip skis in 1999. Purchased by K2 around 2002.
Atomic Skis. Atomic Austria GmbH is an Austrian sports equipment company headquartered in Salzburg, Austria. It manufactures and sells skis and other skiing equipment, such as boots, bindings, helmets, ski poles, goggles, bags, apparel and protective equipment. [2] Atomic is a subsidiary of Finnish retail conglomerate Amer Sports, which in turn ...
Head Sport GmbH is an American-Austrian manufacturing company headquartered in Kennelbach.It owns the American tennis racket brand Head. Head GmbH is a group that includes several previously independent companies, including the original "Head Ski Company" (founded in the United States in 1950); Tyrolia, an Austrian ski-equipment manufacturer; and Mares, an Italian manufacturer of diving equipment.
The Kneissl Company was founded as a wheel factory in 1861. The first skis were produced in 1919. In the 1960s, Kneissl developed the first plastic skis featuring a wood core. Ski racer Karl Schranz made the Kneissl White Star skis one of the most sought after in the world. In the seventies, the company expanded into cross-country ski and ...
2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Super-G. Anna Veith (née Fenninger; born 18 June 1989) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She was the overall World Cup champion for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. Born in Hallein, Veith is from the village of Adnet in Salzburg and made her World Cup debut at age 17 in November 2006.
3 North America. Toggle North America subsection. 3.1 Canada. 3.2 ... The following is a list of notable brands and manufacturers of climbing and mountaineering ...
Kalvträskskidan at the ski exhibition in Umeå. The oldest information about skiing is based on archaeological evidence. Two regions present the earliest evidence of skis and their use: northern Russia, where the oldest fragments of ski-like objects, dating from about 6300–5000 BCE were found about 1,200 km northeast of Moscow at Lake Sindor, [8] and the Altaic region of modern China where ...
A controlled avalanche was filmed rolling down a mountainside above a ski resort in Baad, Austria, on January 16.Video shared by Boaz Bego shows a small puff of white appear at the top of the ...